This article by Jeff L. Fox originally appeared in the Billings (Mont.) Gazette November 10, and is reprinted with permission of the author. “It’s not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It’s the customer who pays the wages.” ”• Henry Ford PPL’s announcement that it will mothball...

Wind energy in Colorado each year saves a billion gallons of water while avoiding emissions of air pollutants equivalent to that produced by half a million cars, according to a recent report from Environment Colorado. Between 2000 and 2011, production of electricity from wind energy in Colorado grew from zero to 4.7...

Wind energy is powering an "energy revolution" in Pennsylvania and across America, writes John Hanger, former secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection in an op-ed in the Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot-News. Wind farms in Fayette, Somerset, Blair, Cambria, Tioga, Bradford, Lycoming, Schuylkill, Luzerne and Wayne counties will churn out enough electricity...